Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-30
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BROADWAY, New York, is now
threatened with an elevated railroad.
A New YORK physician was fined
$3.50 the other day, for using without
authority the name of DR.. Hammond
IN recommendation of q nostrum.
MRS. M. E. PARKER, Of Horne, La,
proposes to solve the Chinese question
by re placing the Chinese servants with
''needy gentlewomen" from England.
JOE Young, of the Malcolm, ILL.,, pot.
terry, recently turned $50 jugs in nine
hours and two minutes. He has is
sued challenge to any turner of 5000
to $500.
A MAN in Ogdensburg, N. Y, con-
verted q tootstool into bank. After
his death 1910 ia gold was found in
the stool, and the hole plugged up
with plaster OF paris.
THREE carpenters are under arrest
at Cleveland for violating the Sunday
observance law by working on q build
ing on the Sabbath day. Thesaloons
were not closed however.
1T is said that an old law is still ex-
tant In Virginia which imposes g. fine
of fifty pounds of tobacco on man
if he absents himself from church one
month without q valid excuse.
A SILVER. HAIRED patron of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, in New York, who has
lived there for twenty-five years,
claims that In that time his lodging
and meals have cost him 100000.
In trial at Philadelphia the other
day the fact was brought out that
two young people, who were neighbors,
had been in the habit of doing their
counting On thereof of a house near by.
The New Castle, Pa, fishermen re-
Gently caught in one day three pike
that weighed twelve, thirteen and
thirty-seven pounds respectively. The
fish were taken from the Shenango
River.
A SPARROW hoped up on a pile of
CLAIMS in an Oxford, Pa, restaurant
the other day and was suddenly i'm
prisoned by one of the bivalves, which
closed it's shells together over the
birds foot.
IN Toronto, Conn, last Sunday was
consecrated and dedicated new
Roman Catholic Church, the first of
it's kind ever done in New England.
This can only occur when the church
is fully paid for.
MARTIN WEHUNT, of Dahlonega, Ca,
cut open q deer he had killed and dis
covered two curious stones in the ami
malls stomach. They were found to
be madstones, and have since been
used with success.
MRS. CATHERINE O'DONNELL, g. So
loon-keeper at Media, Pa, took out
naturalization papers last week. Only
citizens can sell liquors under a high
license law that has recently gone into
effect in that state.
In China. the rule of the road is to
keep the left, but the cody bearers
can't be taught to mind it, and there
are frequent collisions, in which the
women or others in the jinrichshas Or
sedan chairs are badly hurt.
GOLDEN trout are found in but one
place in the world-that is in the
brooks Of Mount Whitney, up near
the banks of everlasting snow. They
have golden stripe down each side,
and are the most beautiful fishes that
swim.
AT fire in Stratham, N. H., the
house we'll having failed, through an
accident to the windlass, several bar
rels of cider close by were drawn up
on, and the fire was thus quenched,
as we'll as the subsequent thirst of the
fremen.
Two families occupying the same
house in Wallingford, Conn.,, fought
long and bitterly until the woman on
the first floor burned feathers and
cayenne pepper. Then the woman on
the second floor capitulated and
moved out.
A BosToN leather firm sold 1000
feet of grain leather TO g. manufac-
turer at 1O11a cents per foot. In q few
days the bill was returned to them,
with demand for 2 cents deduction
for one'quarter foot short measure.
They allowed it.
ONE of the big bridges of the world
will soon be ready for traffic. This is
the iron railroad bridge across the
Missouri q few miles below Kansas
City. It is 1892 feet long, weighs H.
275 tons, is SO feet above high water,
with towers reaching to a height OF
200 feet
A COLUMN of brick masonry, about
20 feet high, is still standing, over
grown with ivy, amid g. group of fine
old trees, on the James River. 1t is
all that remains of the first church
erected by Englishmen in America,
and was erected by the Jamestown
colony in 1910.
THERE is g. secret agent of the Nor
mon Church in Portland, Me-, vino
for years has worked for his cause
without detection. It is said that he
has made number of converts In
Maine and Massachusetts, and has
shown his faith by his works, having
taken seven wives.
THE military marches accomplished
by the ancients were fully equal to
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